Quote:It's worrisome if it's true though that the Browns made a better offer.  Caldwell would now be on very bad terms with the Browns. We all remember how Gene Smith couldn't trade back and had to take LOLuLOLu.

 

Though forming relationships with other GM's can be pretty important as well.  "You scratch my back, I scratch your back".  I remember the Patriots and Eagles making a lot of trades, and one year they swapped picks -- for absolutely no other reason than to make a trade.